02354nam 2200457 450 991048022250332120210208145834.01-77558-532-81-86940-499-81-77558-046-6(CKB)2670000000491960(EBL)1411764(MiAaPQ)EBC1557323(EXLCZ)99267000000049196020170301e20082007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierCold snack /Janet CharmanAuckland, New Zealand :Auckland University Press,2008.©20071 online resource (134 p.)Poems.1-86940-380-0 Cover; Half-title; Title Page; Table of Contents; 1 busy with the short teacher; busy with the short teacher; test test test one two; fish and chips; 'those who can, teach'; wake up to yourself; lessons from the Waitakeres; all of this remains within my sight; Lord of the Rings; my albatross; Tiritiri Matangi; parent teacher interviews; Smackdown Wrestling; invigilator; 2 televisioner; televisioner; 3 cold snack; cold snack; night wear; before you eat; tea mind; the sock of the self; hot flash odalisque; set point; twelve degrees of separation; a dinner party; Also by Janet Charman; Copyrightcold snack is an immensely readable collection, among the most accessible that well-loved poet Janet Charman has written. The book brims with poems of suburbia, families, workplaces, ordinary life. In the first section Charman explores the pains and pleasures (mostly the pains) of becoming a schoolteacher in midlife, ?rerouted back to class'?the fish-swim of routine, pedagogy and (teacher) truancy, parent?teacher interviews, assessment ?in the jelly sway of the kelp forest'. The second section, ?televisioner', is a single long sequence that views the over-confident 1980s from the unlikelyNew Zealand poetry21st centuryElectronic books.New Zealand poetry821.914821/.914Charman Janet884714MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910480222503321Cold snack2083149UNINA